My Review about Alastair Reynolds

Reynolds has excellent ideas and his writing skills have improved over time (Example: characterization), but his plots are somewhat haphazard and the pacing is inconsistent. Chasm City remains his finest book in my opinion. All of the threads work well together, and the gradual revelation of Tanner Mirabel's secrets is brilliantly realized. Revelation Space was a good debut but fatally flawed due to its paper-thin characters and that mind-numbing physics info-dump at the end. Redemption Ark was good up until the overly long ship chase (which took up about half of the book) and the skipped-over relativistic space battle. Absolution Gap took too long to get going and then took the absolute piss by doing a Hamilton at the end. I keep hearing good things about his short stories, and I'm hoping that they are more consistent than his novels. Nightshade Books should be churning out a collection of these stories sometime this year.

Know about Alfred Nobel

Alfred Nobel was born on October 21,1833, in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.Born into a relatively well-heeled family.Nobel had informal education having been tutored at home until the age of 16.In 1866 to 1867,Nobel invented dynamite and won a patent for it.Nobel created a controllable combustible that made blasting rock and the construction of canals and tunnels a relatively safe process.Other than the patent for dynamite,Nobel,a prolific inventor, held a little over 350 patents to his credit.Nobel was fluent in Swedish,Russian,English and French, which shows that his interests were not limited to science alone.After the invention of dynamite, Nobel set up a large number of companies and labs in over 20 countries and amassed a fortune.On November 27,1895,Nobel signed his final will at the Swedish-Norwegian club in Paris.Prior to this, in 1888,when Nobel's brother Ludwig died, a French newspaper erroneously ran a obituary for Nobel,which called him "a merchant of death".This epitaph hurt Nobel deeply as he was a commited pacifist.He created a will, which bequeathed a large part of his estate to a trust.He specified that the trust would use the money to establish the Nobel Prize.He died of cerebral haemorrahage in the Italian town of San Remo on December 10, 1896.

Stranger in Home

We had just shifted to our new house.I was a stranger to a few things.Among them,one was the geyser in the bathroom.My father had told me how to operate the geyser.I would have to open the tap first and then switch on the geyser.And while switching it off,it had to be geyser first,and then the tap.I had to have my bath the next day as usual earl in the morning,still sleepy eyed,I switched on the geyser and waited for hot water.After a while.I noticed smoke coming out of the geyser.I shouted for help.My father came running and switched off the geyser.Since I was very young at that age, I was terrified when I saw the smoke.I knew something was wrong thankfully my father managed to pull me out of the bathroom in time.

About Crab Walking

It's easy for people to move their legs forward or backward. That's because of the way they're attached to the body. People's knees bend towards the front, and that also makes it easy to walk forward. But a crab's legs are attached to the sides of its body. And its joints, unlike our knees, bend so that the crab can walk sideways. That's why crabs walk the way they do. an we do it? Crabs have five legs on each side of their shell. The front pair are for grasping, and remaining four pairs are walking or swimming. Each leg has seven joints, arranged so that the crab walks sideways. Frog crabs and spider crabs however, have legs designed to enable them to walk forward.

Predicting likelihood

In predicting your likelihood of promotion, you may be better off focusing on the trends that are apparent in your job performance over time, rather than obsessing over minor, passing fluctuations. People around you are likely to need some help from you to take notice of fine-granted details in your life behaviors. "While we live our own lives under a microscope and we are present all the time when we do things, other people are not there with us," notes Ragu. "That's a problem for intuiting other people's thoughts because we tend to evaluate ourselves in much finer detail. We look at ourselves from the street view, whereas other people are looking at us from space." A two idiot explodes a sphere.

Edison's basement lab

Thomas Alva Edison, the famous inventor, built his first science laboratory in the basement of his home , at the age of 10! He would spend hours on end in his laboratory. Fed up of seeing him cooped up thus, his father would bribe him with a penny to go out. But he would use the penny to buy more chemicals for his experiments. Edison filed 1,093 patents, including those for the lights bulb, electric railways and the movie camera. When he died in 1931, he held 34 patents for the telephone, 141 for batteries, 150 for the telegraph and 389 patents for electric light and power.